Department of Communities Developing Regulations for a Charity Registration Threshold

The role of volunteers as trustees is vitally important and the increasing strain felt by these volunteers as bureaucracy increases has been evident.  Volunteer Now therefore welcomes the announcement that the Department of Communities is developing regulations for the introduction of a £20k income and £100k asset charity registration threshold.   The regulations are anticipated to be introduced in autumn 2025, with the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland beginning the deregistration of those applicable charities who no longer wish to be registered in the later stages of 2026.

A full public consultation on the draft regulations is not expected however the Committee for Communities will have a scrutiny role and the Assembly will debate them as they are to be made via the draft affirmative procedure.

It is to be hoped that as these regulations are implemented trustees of small charities should feel some reduction in bureaucracy.

Click to read the Registration Threshold Response Document.